It's one of the holy grails of sports memorabilia. Along with Bill Mazeroski's Series-winning ball in 1960 and before that, the Shot Heard Round the World in '51, the basketball used in the Wilt Chamberlain 100 point game 50 years ago is still missing. Or is it?
What really became of the ball after that historic night in Hershey Pa., in 1962 has been lost over time. … [Read more...]

The race that wouldn't start turned into the race that wouldn't end Monday night. The Daytona 500 finally got put to bed with a new winner...a day later than normal. There are plenty of 'stick and ball' sports fans who appreciate NASCAR, even when the weather and track clean ups tend to dominate races. In fact, race fans pony up good money for modern and vintage NASCAR … [Read more...]

The Minnesota Twins have opened bidding on an autographed baseball that may be more of interest to collectors of celebrity memorabilia than sports fans but has a toe in each world.
It's not quite the Joe DiMaggio-Marilyn Monroe ball that sold for big bucks not long ago, but it's in the same family. The Twins are offering an official Major League baseball autographed by both … [Read more...]

Over 100 footballs will be used in the Super Bowl game and to protect against possible counterfeiting every one of them will be "tagged" with a specially-prepared synthetic DNA ink that leaves an invisible-to-the-naked-eye security mark. The sideline pylons and even the coin used for the game-opening coin toss will be marked, too.
The National Football League again will use … [Read more...]

We are about to witness the Battle of the Sports Memorabilia Reality Shows. Just a few days after Discovery released information on its All Star Dealers series featuring the boys from Grey Flannel Auctions, ABC-TV offered details on its own production, set to debut a month later.
From the producers of cable's top rated "Pawn Stars," "Ball Boys" follows the sports … [Read more...]

A pair of unique collages of early 20th century tobacco and caramel cards leads off Huggins & Scott’s first Masterpiece auction of 2012. The collages feature over 200 cards with 36 Hall of Famers and seven different Types. They're two of the most eye-catching items in the auction, which gets underway later this month.
Vintage card collectors will find other 19th … [Read more...]

Among the featured items in Lelands.com current auction, which closes December 16 is an extremely rare jersey worn by baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, Derek Jeter’s ball from his 3000th hit at bat, a 1971 Pele Brazil Game Worn Jersey, and championship rings from Jim Katcavage and Darvin Ham.
The 100% original, 1959 Washington Senators jersey (Reserve: $10,000) is … [Read more...]

One of only two known surviving copies of the first World Series program sold at auction Saturday for a record-setting price of $241,500, the highest price ever paid for a World Series program. The only other program seen in public resides in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The winner, whose name hasn't been revealed, placed the winning bid of $210,00 over the phone during Hunt … [Read more...]

Some Cooperstown-worthy artifacts are going on the block this Saturday as the annual Louisville Slugger Auction opens at the home of the famous bat maker.
Hunt Auctions is heading from Philadelphia to Kentucky, touting hundreds of rare pieces of baseball memorabilia including a World Series Program from the inaugural series in 1903 expected to sell for upwards of $100,000. … [Read more...]

Cubs fans do it because...well...it's just something Cubs fans do. While ballhawks outside Wrigley Field chase down any home run ball that leaves the park, fans who catch one in the bleachers throw it back if it was hit by an opposing player. The general idea is that a home run ball hit by the other team isn't worth keeping. It may have been funny once, but now it's just … [Read more...]